A visit to Summit Farm brought us many, many raspberries. This is the week to pick them! By the end of the week, the blueberries will be ready too. We’re going back in a few days to pick more for jam. Where’s your favorite place to pick berries and what do you do with them?

What about the library? It’s FREE! Yes, free. Your local library is an amazing resource. Not only can you check books out (that’s right, for free), but you can rent movies, go on-line, visit for a story hour, check out local artists work on display, peruse the community board, sit down and read the paper. We visit the Meekin’s Library in Williamsburg. It has a kid’s room with books and a few toys in it. We love books. We read many, many books. And when we need a bookshelf of new books, we just visit the library. I also love that I can order a book from another library in the network, and when it arrives at my local library, they notify me via email and I can go in and pick it up! Did you know that you can also sign out free passes to museums from our local libraries here in Western Mass?

What a great way to show your kids the world. Click see a new picture from somewhere else, that you may have been or have always wanted to visit. Read the story, then learn about a distant, or not so distant place and people. (via Design Mom)

The Cummington Family Center will be at the Ashfield Farmer’s Market, Main Street, Ashfield, Saturday, July 21. While picking up your bread, veggies and so much more, come visit the Cummington Family Center booth. CFC bags will be available for purchase – so you can carry your purchases home!

The truck is full — Black Raspberry, Maple Walnut, White Chocolate
Kahlua with Oreos, Coffee, Butter Pecan, and more — and the window
finally opens on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at the Cummington Fairgrounds!
Stop by for a sundae, cone, root beer float or a snow cone.

Hilltown Ice Cream will be at the Hilltown Spring Festival joining with lots of other local businesses, artists and
organizations to celebrate the Hilltowns and honor the Hilltown CDC for
25 years of service to the region. Rain or shine, shorts or sweaters,
the truck will be there.

Hilltown Ice Cream is also still taking reservations for the summer, so if you’ve got
events, parties, or other ideas of where the truck should be selling ice
cream, please let Hilltown Ice Cream know. (413.634.5728)

Remember, it’s never too cold for ice cream…..

For more information about Hilltown Ice Cream, you can check out their website, email them at info@hilltownicecream.com or give them a call: 413.634.5728

Come and join us as we start vegetables, flowers and herbs for the new Children’s Garden at Holiday Farm. This is a hands-on activity- so you will get dirty as we mix potting soil, fill pots and plant seeds. There will be tips on getting your seeds from the packet to the garden to the table as well as answers to your gardening questions. We will also be planting the 3 Sisters Section of the Garden using traditional Native American planting techniques and seeds. Participants will go home with a pack of seedlings to be. Good for all ages.

Draw/Paint/Collage a self portait! (that is a picture of you!) and drop
it off at the Children’s Art Museum in Shelburne Falls, matted/framed
by May 30th to be included in our art show. Nothing will be turned
away if it is ready to be hung.